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Using the array form of numerically stable square-root implementation methods for Kalman filtering formulas, we construct a new square-root algorithm for the log-likelihood gradient (score) evaluation. This avoids the use of the…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-05-24 Maria V. Kulikova

This work proposes a resilient and adaptive state estimation framework for robots operating in perceptually-degraded environments. The approach, called Adaptive Maximum Correntropy Criterion Kalman Filtering (AMCCKF), is inherently robust…

In this paper, we consider the task of designing a Kalman Filter (KF) for an unknown and partially observed autonomous linear time invariant system driven by process and sensor noise. To do so, we propose studying the following two step…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-14 Anastasios Tsiamis , Nikolai Matni , George J. Pappas

A Kalman filter based sequential estimator is presented in the present work. The estimator is integrated in the structure of segregated solvers for the analysis of incompressible flows. This technique provides an augmented flow state…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-02-22 Marcello Meldi , Alexandre Poux

Providing a metric of uncertainty alongside a state estimate is often crucial when tracking a dynamical system. Classic state estimators, such as the Kalman filter (KF), provide a time-dependent uncertainty measure from knowledge of the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-10 Itzik Klein , Guy Revach , Nir Shlezinger , Jonas E. Mehr , Ruud J. G. van Sloun , Yonina. C. Eldar

The Kalman filter (KF) is an optimal linear state estimator for linear systems, and numerous extensions, including the extended Kalman filter (EKF), unscented Kalman filter (UKF), and cubature Kalman filter (CKF), have been developed for…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-07 Shida Jiang , Junzhe Shi , Scott Moura

Traditional tracking-by-detection systems typically employ Kalman filters (KF) for state estimation. However, the KF requires domain-specific design choices and it is ill-suited to handling non-linear motion patterns. To address these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Momir Adžemović , Predrag Tadić , Andrija Petrović , Mladen Nikolić

This paper tackles the intricate task of jointly estimating state and parameters in data assimilation for stochastic dynamical systems that are affected by noise and observed only partially. While the concept of ``optimal filtering'' serves…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-19 Feng Bao , Guannan Zhang , Zezhong Zhang

This paper addresses the problem of optimal linear filtering in a network of local estimators, commonly referred to as distributed Kalman filtering (DKF). The DKF problem is formulated within a distributed optimization framework, where…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-23 Muhammad Iqbal , Kundan Kumar , Simo Särkkä

This paper continues the research devoted to the design of numerically stable square-root implementations for the maximum correntropy criterion Kalman filtering (MCC-KF). In contrast to the previously obtained results, here we reveal the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-07 Maria V. Kulikova

State estimation that combines observational data with mathematical models is central to many applications and is commonly addressed through filtering methods, such as ensemble Kalman filters. In this article, we examine the signal-tracking…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-08 Nazanin Abedini , Jana de Wiljes , Svetlana Dubinkina

Robustness and adaptivity are two competing objectives in Kalman filters (KF). Robustness involves temporarily inflating prior estimates of noise covariances, while adaptivity updates prior beliefs by exploiting measurements. In practical…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Shilei Li , Dawei Shi , Hao Yu , Ling Shi

One of the modern research lines in econometrics studies focuses on translating a wide variety of structural econometric models into their state-space form, which allows for efficient unknown dynamic system state and parameter estimations…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-20 Maria V. Kulikova , Julia V. Tsyganova , Gennady Yu. Kulikov

The particle filter (PF) and the ensemble Kalman filter (EnKF) are widely used for approximate inference in state-space models. From a Bayesian perspective, these algorithms represent the prior by an ensemble of particles and update it to…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-02-11 Chengxin Gong , Wei Lin , Cheng Zhang

The extraction of weak signals plays a crucial role in quantum precision measurement, where the estimation results are often limited by low signal-to-noise ratios. Here, we demonstrate a parameter-estimation framework based on the adaptive…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Yihan Wang , Xiaofeng Jin , Yuchuan Ming , Jianxiang Miao , Xiao-Ming Lu , M. W. Mitchell , Jia Kong

Intraoperative tracking of surgical instruments is an inevitable task of computer-assisted surgery. An optical tracking system often fails to precisely reconstruct the dynamic location and pose of a surgical tool due to the acquisition…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-12-23 Md Ashikuzzaman , Noushin Jafarpisheh , Sunil Rottoo , Pierre Brisson , Hassan Rivaz

This paper investigates the distributed Kalman filtering (DKF) from distributed optimization viewpoint. Motivated by the fact that Kalman filtering is a maximum a posteriori estimation (MAP) problem, which is a quadratic optimization…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-22 Kunhee Ryu , Juhoon Back

This paper studies the distributed state estimation problem for a class of discrete time-varying systems over sensor networks. Firstly, it is shown that a networked Kalman filter with optimal gain parameter is actually a centralized filter,…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Xingkang He , Wenchao Xue , Haitao Fang

In this paper, a distributed Kalman filtering (DKF) algorithm is proposed based on a diffusion strategy, which is used to track an unknown signal process in sensor networks cooperatively. Unlike the centralized algorithms, no fusion center…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-05 Siyu Xie , Die Gan , Zhixin Liu

This paper introduces two new algorithms to accurately estimate the process noise covariance of a discrete-time Kalman filter online for robust orbit determination in the presence of dynamics model uncertainties. Common orbit determination…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-17 Nathan Stacey , Simone D'Amico